Join the Museum of Science and Technology (MST) in Accra from September 12th to October 30th, 2024 for an extraordinary solo exhibition by renowned artist Elolo Bosoka: What he saw sees when he went goes strolling. This captivating showcase, curated by Bernard Akoi-Jackson (Ph.D), brings together Bosoka’s unique blend of painterly, sculptural, and digital media. Experience the artist’s interpretation of everyday life as it transforms into stunning visual compositions.

What he saw sees when he went goes strolling is a solo exhibition by the artist Elolo Bosoka of work in painterly, sculptural, spatial and digital media. The show follows a chain of his exhibitions across Kumasi, Senegal, France, Germany and Denmark, and serves as a homecoming of sorts to the Museum of Science and Technology (MST) in Accra. Bosoka has been a pivotal exhibition producer for numerous peers’ projects in Accra, Kumasi, and elsewhere; including for the trilogy of blaxTARLINES KUMASI shows at the MST (2015-2017). In the process, he has developed an attitude toward artfully self-organising exhibitions in site-specific venues.

For What he saw sees when he went goes strolling, Bosoka returns to a place that whet his appetite for artist-led production. He presents a body of work that is as much about exhibition-making as it is about discrete objects. Each piece, picture, and patchwork is a re-composition of ‘exhibitions’ in everyday life. Bosoka treats his ordinary experience as a space to see, stage, snap, and stain with art.

Curatorial Statement

A person takes a stroll in the urban sphere and begins to notice things. This person is an artist, so, in noticing too, there is a sense of unhurried attention that is paid to the things, and these evoke inspiring thoughts. This person is Elolo Bosoka and as he is strolling, clusters and constellations of cues are fleetingly passing him by as he also by-passes sites, places, and a host of spaces. What does he see? A clothing line with a variety of items hanging out to dry; a decorative frieze on a section of concrete walling from decades ago; the detail of a window’s burglar-proofing which has been patched over with some synthetic leather sheets, held down with bitumen (coal-tar) and metallic bolts, nuts and washers…some of these visual registers are then transformed within Bosoka’s roving studio situations and become paintings, collages (patched works), installations, lithographic prints, photographic prints, objects and videos. As earlier hinted, the works are inspired by Bosoka’s everyday experiences of cities such as Accra, Kumasi, Tamale, Dakar, Berlin, Copenhagen, and so are almost abridged quotes from the ordinary, that have been distilled into these crystalline wonders stirred by wander[ing]. Having been produced in artistic experimentation over and through the past five years, they have been brought together in Museum of Science and Technology, (MST), Accra, in Elolo Bosoka’s desire to share a largely comprehensive practice with a larger public.

-Bernard Akoi-Jackson

While MST proudly serves as the venue, the exhibition is independently produced by the artist and curator.

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